We all get ticked off about something so what's your pet peeve?

One of mine...

I absolutely hate it when I'm driving and I leave just enough safe "breaking distance" between my car and the next and some bunghole squeezes his car in there - the icing on the cake is always when I look in the rear view mirror and see a mile of open road behind me that the a-hole could have "safely" merged into.

Vent away... what bugs you??

Don't get me started. One is the begging school kids outside the supermarket. Another is some of the laborers at work that "crop dust"(holding one nostril closed and blowing the other on the shop floor). I'm also with you on the bunghole thing. I commute 500 miles a week. I've got a lot of peeves on the roadway.

...I think we may have been separated at birth. ;)

On a side note - I was always told that "crop dusting" was when the airline attendents walk up and down the aisle and silently fart between the passengers. Equally disgusting but different crops I suppose.

Where I live, and where I grew up in Western Canada employers currently cannot find enough people to work. There are jobs everywhere, thanks to a booming mining/energy industry right now.

I almost freakin' snap when I hear people I know whining about not being able to find a job, or a summer job that pays enough, or how they can't get a large enough student loan. Tree plant! Work a few jobs if you want to stay in town! There is work. They might not be the most fun, but hey, if anyone wants to work, work is there. Same goes for people I work with who seem to think they deserve a raise when they only do the bare minimum that's requested of them.

I guess ultimately my pet peeve is the shoddy work ethic that seems to have infected the entire younger generation around here, and their subsequent expectation that they can get what they want and it'll be handed it to them.

That and people who seem to think the entire world wants to hear their half of a cell-phone conversation: in an airport, in a restaurant, on the sidewalk...

(I may suffer from rage-a-hol-ism)

It's funny you should mention that. The other day I was in the mens room at work and this guy comes in to do his business. He's standing at the stall with one hand on his, er... you know, and his other hand holding the cell phone. I'm standing next to him listening to him talking business.

Needless to say, I gave the urinal a couple of extra flushes just to amp up the noise and let the person he was talking to know where he was.

Don't know what I hate more, the cell phone toilet multi-taskers or those cyborgs that walk around the airport with that blue tooth thing in their ear, blabbing away at the top of their lungs.

My pet peeve's name is Andrew... He's the icky roommate.

He never thinks to do laundry until I'm doing ours. As soon as the dryer is done he dumps all my clothes onto the kitchen table. Then his two cats proceed to get car fur all over it.

He comes downstairs when he hears us cooking, and looks at my husband with puppy dog eyes till he (the husband) gives in and asks him if he wants some dinner too.

He smokes and leaves butts everywhere... and I do mean everywhere.

He seems to have an adverse reaction to cleaning up after himself.

He talks inappropriately in front of my children.

His brain somehow lost the one brain cell that tells you when to shut up. He's also missing the one that tells you when you are talking too loud, making too much noise and being a complete douchebag.

He begs my husband to rip cds and dvds before we've even had a chance to enjoy them.

He refuses to acknowldege my presence in the house, barely speaking to me even when spoken to.

The good news is he has to be out of here in 18 days. Yes, Im counting the days.

eh... I suppose this isn't the rant thread, its the pet peeve thread. sorry, lets blame it on the hormones, shall we?

Don't hold back, sweetie. Tell us how you really feel.

I also forgot:

Spandex.

It seems whenever I visit 'trendy' mountain towns (ones that used to be rough grubby miner/logger mountain towns - my kind of places) or cities, people feel the need to exercise in spandex or lycra. Which is fine, provided they're training for Olympic events or something (I know of a few places where this is true). But then I'll head out to get groceries, or have a pint, and there are people walking around grocery shopping in lycra/spandex that covers 20% of their bodies and leaves NOTHING to the imagination. Do people think "hmmm I have to go get groceries, but in my yuppiness I want everyone to think i'm a hard-core athlete, so I'll wear spandex instead of jeans today"?

That and baby strollers that are wider than an F-150 and leave no room for anyone else on a sidewalk. Back when I was a kid, baby strollers didn't need BMX tyres.

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ooooooo, ooooo, and chubby girls in midrif shirts and tight jeans. Muffin tops.

Jessica Simpson.

Is it me or does she look like the freaking Joker in her Pizza Hut ad?

YEAH ME TOO!

She keeps sending me these "inappropriate" photos of herself with little notes attached that read like Penthouse letters.

She's always inviting me to these Hollywood parties and...

Oh wait.
This isn't the "What's your craziest fantasy" thread is it?

It's stupid, but there is one thing that bugs me more than anything else in this world: when people use the word "loose" to mean "lose."

They're not the same freaking thing, and I know it's not a spelling difference between the US and other English-speaking countries.

to loose = to let go or to free
to lose = to be unaware of the location of something

If you lose your wallet, you can't find it.
If you LOOSE your wallet, you sent it back into the wild of your own free will.


Oh, and people talking loud on cell phones. Browntrout won bonus points from me for the flushing thing. If I had a chance of defending myself in case of an attack, I'd spend half my days at the airport standing near those people with a headset of my own talking (to no one) about my problem with festering boils.

Misuse of apostrophes bugs me too, but not as much as it use'd to. ;-)

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Nick. Nick is my pet peeve.

Him, and when people misuse the word "retarded".

Oh, and along with Nick goes the misuse of "to", "two", and "too".

Ok, I know i'm late here, but--- HOLY crap. ME TOO. Also, to/too, there/they're/their and all those. I mean, I can handle some, but if its consistent in their writing, shouldnt they notice? Punctuation like apostrophes I dont mind (esp while typing) im lazy too. But question marks and periods.... two different things. Please use a ? at the end of questions.....

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I like this thread. Maybe im just angry.... i mean.... ummm....

I don't need to list the thousands of individual things that upset me because I can summarize them all very easily.

It's:
1) Lack of a moral reference.
They don't know right from wrong.
2) The lack of personal responsibility.
They just feel like they don't have to do what is right.
3) The absence of consequences.
Nothing happens when they don't act responsibly.
4) An over-abundance of self-esteem.
We have emphasised the importance of having great self-esteem for so long that people nowadays have too much. This leaves them with the attitude that they can do no wrong and that they are better than everyone else.

This kind of summarizes all the peeves here and also what is wrong with the world as a whole.

Two things drive me crazy. I mean absolutely bonkers.

1. PEOPLE WHO CLAP AFTER MOVIES: The whole point of applause is to show your respect and approval to the actors and actresses on stage who have just put out a stellar performance. Is there anyone to receive your applause at a movie? No. Write a letter to the producers, tell them how you feel.

2. ODDLY SHAPED AREOLAS AND LARGE NIPPLES: Im sorry ladies, but this is a huge pet peeve of mine. If they are proportionate great, Im not going to knock you, but Im talking about nipples that are shaped like Texas, or California, they are oval or crooked, like a paint splatter. I like cute little nipples, round, pink, fun to play with. Im a large dude, I have man boobs, but my nipples are glorious. I expect the same from the woman I choose to mate with. (Im not shallow enough to leave someone over this, but it does bother me. This is easily identified in really bad pornos that are on Cinemax, apparently areolas aren't a huge issue for those soft core producers)

Feet and food.

I don't care if I'm sharing a couch with you while we eat popcorn and watch a movie. Your feet do NOT belong on a cushion anywhere near my food. Also, do not step over my food if I'm sitting on the floor. Your feet are not clean, and they may have picked up a random piece of junk off the floor that will drop into my food. KEEP YOUR FEET AWAY FROM MY FOOD!

It's crazy that my karma was 23 at the start of this thread.

People who throw trash on the ground right beside a trash can really chap my ass. That, and the people that talk on their cell phones whle driving but have no clue that they are completely incapable of doing so.

That would be just about everyone I know, unfornately.

My pet peeves:

Letting your dog run off leash in public. When he comes up to me, the owner yells," don't worry hes friendly!" Um look you f**ktard, my dog isn't dog friendly. My dog is on a leash like your's should be. What about the people who are afraid of dogs? I don't care how trained your dog is, it needs to be on a leash if hes on public property.

If you're going to cut me off, at least have a good reason. If I'm going 5 over the speed limit in the right lane, by all means, pass me! Do not honk your horn or ride on my bumper. Why the f**k do you think there is a left lane? That is for passing me. Once you get that concept, heres another one. If you have SO much room to speed up and go back into the right lane, why do you cut me off? It's not like you're turning on that street! I mean really!